Problems backing up

[Robert Hoekstra]

amstatus gives me this interesting news:   -------------------- <amstatus report> ------------------- Using /usr/local/etc/amanda/hosting2/amdump from Fri Jun 29 12:24:55 MET DST 2001   cobalt01.somewhere.nl:/etc               0    2624k finished (12:25:18) cobalt01.somewhere.nl:/home              0  162630k dumping    43744k ( 26.90%) (12:26:41) cobalt01.somewhere.nl:/var               0   16192k finished (12:26:41)   SUMMARY          part     real estimated                           size      size partition       :   3 estimated       :   3             181400k failed          :   0                  0k           (  0.00%) wait for dumping:   0                  0k           (  0.00%) dumping to tape :   0                  0k           (  0.00%) dumping         :   1    43744k   162630k ( 26.90%) ( 24.11%) dumped          :   2    18816k    18770k (100.25%) ( 10.37%) wait for writing:   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%) writing to tape :   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%) failed to tape  :   0        0k        0k (  0.00%) (  0.00%) taped           :   2    18816k    18770k (100.25%) ( 10.37%) 3 dumpers idle  : not-idle taper idle network free kps:     5165 holding space   :   134240k ( 45.20%)  dumper0 busy   :  0:01:42  ( 99.79%)    taper busy   :  0:00:00  (  0.13%)  0 dumpers busy :  0:00:00  (  0.00%)  1 dumper busy  :  0:01:42  (100.00%)        no-bandwidth:  0:01:12  ( 70.44%)                                                start-wait:  0:00:30  ( 29.39%) -------------------- </amstatus report> -------------------   This means that the backup has been started but hangs during the process... a time out of 1 hour doesn't help very much..   On the Cobalt machine I ran TOP, with the following processes at the very bottom of the list, while on top until it hung!   -------------------- <top report> ------------------- 14308 amanda     0   0   740  740   676 S       0  0.0  0.1   0:00 sendbackup 14309 amanda     0   0   728  728   668 S       0  0.0  0.1   0:02 sendbackup 14310 root       0   0   812  812   520 S       0  0.0  0.1   0:03 gtar 14311 amanda     0   0     0    0     0 Z       0  0.0  0.0   0:00 sh <defunct> -------------------- </top report> -------------------   Does this help any further? or is there any way in which I can see at which particular file it hangs itself?   Thanks again..